Egg-boiler.



C. SPITZ C. A. D()DSON.

EEG BOILER. I APPLICTION FILED JUNE 4,1914.

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

2 SHE ETSSHEET 2- mmwm I Inventor's Wt Q i 3 Charles Spiz,

b CIemen-LA Dodson, 677 by dilemma- CHABLE'S SPITZ AND CLEDIENT A. DGDSON, OF NEW $03K,

To all whoa it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES Srrrz and Cnmncx'r A. Donson, both citizens of the United States of America, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new an useful Improvements in Egg-Boilers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a reliable, durable and easily operated apparatus in conjunction with a tank for boiling eggs which can be set to automatically withdraw the eggs from the water when the desired time has elapsed.

A further object is to provide a plurality of such devices which may be started ditferent times and which will operate independently of one another while joined so as to have their timing mechanisms actuated from a common source.

In the accompanying two ings which form a part of Figure 1 is a front elevation, of an apparatus embodying. with two timing devices. Fig. 2 is a side elevation with one of the timing devices in section on the line lL-Il. of Fig. l.

T he apparatus comprises a tank 1 in which water is kept boiling in any con venient manner-a pipe 2 for the circulation of steam under pressure being shown for the purpose. The eggs are carried by receptacles 3, 3, which are suitably'perfo rated to permit the water to freely circulate through them from the tank and to drain off at once when the receptacles are withdrawn. Each receptacle is suspended bya chain t which is carried over a pulley 5 and attached to a, weight 6 which is heavy enough to overbalance many eggs as can be carried therein. The weight is formed with a hook 7 having extended lip. A traveling half-nut 8 has a horn carrying a roller 9 which is engaged by the hook and the weight is thereb supported.

guided by a rod 11 about which be rocked into and out of engagement with a lead screw 1:2. The lead-screw is driven by any convenient power which will cause it to revolve slowly and at a uniform speed. For this purpose an electric motor 13 is shown from which the power is transmitted through a speed-reducing worm 14: and gear 15 mounted on the motor, a sprocket 16,

sheets of drawthis application broken away, our invention Specification of Letters PaWZII.

the receptacle and as The nut has a handle 10 and is the nut canv Patented Jan. it,

914. Serial No.- 342,323.

chain 17, sprocket 18, worm 19 and gear 26. The chain drive permits the motor to be located at a distance where it Will not be affected injuriously by the steam from the boiler. When it is desired-to mount several timing devices in connection with the boiler, but one driving'means and one lead-screw are necessary. The lead-screw sections may be integral through the several timing dev1ces, or, as shown, coupled together between each two adjacent devices, tongues 21 21 and grooves 22 22 being formed at the ends of the sections for making the couplings. The weight-hook is formed as a rigid part of the weight and is hooked over the roller carried by the half-nut by a. tilt ing of the weight which is brought about by ()n reaching its highest position the point of attachment of the chain is carried above the guides since the chain has an upward inclination in the direction which the hook faces, and the weight is tilted forward and its hook brought over the roller. 1

in operating the apparatus, the half-nut is lifted by bearing, down on its handle and then traversed to the right and. against pointer 52% which is at the time indication for which it is desired boil the eggs. The eggs are dropped in the receptacle an by pressing down on a plate 25"the eggs are brought into the water. Theweight at the same time is lifted into engagement with the half-nut and holds the not against the leadscrew. The screw carries the nut to the left a greater or less distance accordingto the point from which it'was started nntilthe roller is carried beyond the lip of the hook when the weight falls and withdraws the eggs fromthe'boiling water. remains at the indication to show the time that the eggs were in the water. v

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is--- I 1. In an apparatus for boiling eggs, the combination of a boiler, an eggreceptacle, a weight for withdrawing the receptacle The pointer having a 210 011. with 1111 ext-tended 51),}1 1621c? screw ililvfihllg'hfilfdlui for I lead-scxew with a, support for the Weighthook', and means for OPelilfillfj t lassdscrew "650 the hall" Es moved out sf With'the @ighthnok, substanb'iaily as p 2, in zzn appafatus for boihng eggs, the combinatisn of a boiler, an eggrsceptacie, a weight having a, hook with an extended lip a pulley, a chain leading over the pulley and coirmecting' file Weight and receptacle with '1 a 'porgbion beween hc puiley and #61921 at 112;) 11rd mchnatlota 1n the dircctiou Whi -h the hook faces, guides for the weigh? terminated below the point 0f attach-- men of the chain to the Weight when at its highest position, a lead-screm a traveling haifamt with a supporibfcr the weight-hock, and means for operating the lead-screw, sub-- stantialiy as described,

Signed at New York. I. Y, this 1st day of J 111142., 19M.

' GFARLES SPITL.

CLEMENT DODSON fiitnesfies to both signatures:

HARRY SALMON, Elam? 519mm). 

